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RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review


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  • Subject: RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review
  • From: "Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:14:07 -0000
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> > 5!!! What in God's name do you need 5 of them for?! ;)
>
> Well...Des is a bit of a gadget freak you know ;-)  The man's
> study is just
> an incredible Aladins Cave of stuff - looks like a warehouse for eBay :)

Errr it is a warehouse for Ebay, lol ;)

>
> I think the idea is to have an xBox in each room as a kind of Media
> Server/Entertainment system.

Thats the plan!

>
> > To make it do what?
>
> As it's basically a PC then it should be able to do pretty much anything a
> PC does.  It's already running Linux as far as I know too?

I know there is a Debian distro for the Xbox, but I don't know how far they
have got supporting the custom parts of hardware.

Cheers, Des.


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